1. The Hollow Men By
T.S. Eliot

2. Mistah Kurtz -he dead
A penny for the Old Guy

3. We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

4. Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar

5. Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

6. Those who have crossed* With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom*

7. Remember us-if at all-not as lost                                          
Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

8. Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column

9. There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing

10. Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom
More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer In death's
dream kingdom

11. Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves

12. No nearer-
Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom

13. This is the dead land This is cactus land

14. Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive

15. The supplication of a dead man's hand
The supplication of a dead man's hand* Under the twinkle of a fading star

16. Is it like this In death's other kingdom
Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness                           

17. Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone.

18. The eyes are not here There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

19. In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech

20. Gathered on this beach
of the tumid river                                                                                                                                                                                                

21. Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear

22. As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose*
Of death's twilight kingdom

23. The hope only Of empty men.

24. Here we go round the prickly pear*
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.

25. Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

26. Between the conception And the creation                                        Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow

27. Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow

28. For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is long For Thine is the...

29. This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends